The Congress on October 31 announced its fourth list, comprising 56 candidates, for the Rajasthan Assembly election, while fielding its national spokesperson Gourav Vallabh from Udaipur and former MP Manvendra Singh from Siwana in Balotra district. Mr. Singh, the son of the late BJP leader Jaswant Singh, had switched from the BJP to the Congress in 2018. The ruling party has replaced three sitting MLAs with other candidates.
With Thursday’s list, which was released after a marathon meeting of the Congress’s Central Election Committee in New Delhi, the party has so far declared the names of 151 candidates for the 200-member Assembly. The voting will take place on November 25.
The three MLAs who have been denied ticket this time are Bharat Singh (Sangod), Bharosi Lal Jatav (Hindaun) and Khiladi Lal Bairwa (Baseri). Independent MLAs Mahadev Singh Khadela and Kanti Prasad Meena have been fielded from Khandela and Thanagazi, respectively, while Deep Chand Kheria and Jogendra Awana, who joined the Congress after being elected on the Bahujan Samaj Party ticket, have been given tickets from Kishangarh Bas and Nadbai.
